# Kong Gateway Enterprise 3.12.x.x EOL > Source: > Published: 2026-10-06 20:33:00+00:00 Consider a bank using an AI agent to investigate potentially fraudulent transactions. A transaction is processed and the bank’s fraud detection system identifies suspicious activity. That event is published to Kafka: fraud.suspected The bank’s Fraud Alex Drag # Kong API Gateway 3.16: Runtime control, API monetization, and FIPS 140-3 If you've run Kong at scale, you know the moment: a spike in 5xxs from one specific data plane node, a customer opening a ticket about intermittent failures, or a partner integration that fails calls no one else does. Debug-level logs would tell you FIPS 140-3 is the U.S. and Canadian government standard for validating cryptographic modules - the code that does encryption, key generation, and digital signatures. It's issued by NIST and CCCS and enforced through CMVP, the Cryptographic Module Va Standing up a production agent means taking it through six stages: React : the agent must be able to react to events as they occur internal or external to the business Discover : Once running, can the agent find what it needs? This means MCP Servers Alex Drag # Kong Gateway 3.14: More Control, Less Toil With Simplified Security and Policies Managing gateway configurations at scale is harder than it looks. When a plugin needs to apply to most routes, but not all, teams could either duplicate configuration across routes and violate DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) principles, or write custo It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated managem Michael Heap # Event-Driven AI: Agents Shouldn’t Have to Keep Asking if Something Happened Consider a bank using an AI agent to investigate potentially fraudulent transactions. A transaction is processed and the bank’s fraud detection system identifies suspicious activity. That event is published to Kafka: fraud.suspected The bank’s Fraud Alex Drag # Kong API Gateway 3.16: Runtime control, API monetization, and FIPS 140-3 If you've run Kong at scale, you know the moment: a spike in 5xxs from one specific data plane node, a customer opening a ticket about intermittent failures, or a partner integration that fails calls no one else does. Debug-level logs would tell you FIPS 140-3 is the U.S. and Canadian government standard for validating cryptographic modules - the code that does encryption, key generation, and digital signatures. It's issued by NIST and CCCS and enforced through CMVP, the Cryptographic Module Va Standing up a production agent means taking it through six stages: React : the agent must be able to react to events as they occur internal or external to the business Discover : Once running, can the agent find what it needs? This means MCP Servers Alex Drag # Kong Gateway 3.14: More Control, Less Toil With Simplified Security and Policies Managing gateway configurations at scale is harder than it looks. When a plugin needs to apply to most routes, but not all, teams could either duplicate configuration across routes and violate DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) principles, or write custo It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated managem Michael Heap # Event-Driven AI: Agents Shouldn’t Have to Keep Asking if Something Happened Consider a bank using an AI agent to investigate potentially fraudulent transactions. A transaction is processed and the bank’s fraud detection system identifies suspicious activity. That event is published to Kafka: fraud.suspected The bank’s Fraud Alex Drag # Kong API Gateway 3.16: Runtime control, API monetization, and FIPS 140-3 If you've run Kong at scale, you know the moment: a spike in 5xxs from one specific data plane node, a customer opening a ticket about intermittent failures, or a partner integration that fails calls no one else does. Debug-level logs would tell you FIPS 140-3 is the U.S. and Canadian government standard for validating cryptographic modules - the code that does encryption, key generation, and digital signatures. It's issued by NIST and CCCS and enforced through CMVP, the Cryptographic Module Va Standing up a production agent means taking it through six stages: React : the agent must be able to react to events as they occur internal or external to the business Discover : Once running, can the agent find what it needs? This means MCP Servers Alex Drag # Kong Gateway 3.14: More Control, Less Toil With Simplified Security and Policies Managing gateway configurations at scale is harder than it looks. When a plugin needs to apply to most routes, but not all, teams could either duplicate configuration across routes and violate DRY (“Don’t Repeat Yourself”) principles, or write custo It’s been almost a year since we released our Konnect Terraform provider . In that time we’ve seen over 300,000 installs, have 1.7 times as many resources available, and have expanded the provider to include data sources to enable federated managem Michael Heap ## Ready to see Kong in action? Get a personalized walkthrough of Kong's platform tailored to your architecture, use cases, and scale requirements.